Cannot Update. Database or object is read-only. Lucy 31.01.2006 18:18:28 Hi There, When I try and run a macro to export a query, it comes back with the following error message: "Cannot Update. Database or object is read-only." I have created macros to run some other queries and they work fine. There is nothing too different about the query that I am getting the error message with, except that it does a record count of the output of some other related queries. The query only has 1 record as the output, so it is not a big file. It is actually being used as a trailer record for a file. Thanks so much.